If you are not an expert in Runestones, then upon what judgement do you determine that this stone does not look like a rune stone? Just curious?<br><br>Roger...
Geir,<br><br>Once again, yesterday I played around with the translation of this book, and found it somewhat tedious. Suffice it to say that I will likely not ...
> That's touching, but you don't seem to have a<br>> lot of understanding of Ancient Germanic<br>> culture. To fall in battle was the ultimate<br>>...
> I played around with the translation of this <br>> book, and found it somewhat tedious.<br><br>I guess the problem is that this book is written<br>in ...
I've seen hundreds of rune stones, and this isn't what they look like. I don't read runes, but I know what they look like too. Further more, allthough runes ...
It was still an honor to fall in battle. Not even to the pagans it was a question of getting a "free pass" anywhere, including Valhalla, but simply a matter of...
I am surprised with this answer, and I will have to go back and look at some of the data from Greenland, as well as from the other Norse Countries. Perhaps...
> I've never heard of a runestone made after<br>> the Viking Age before. <br><br>It is true that most runestones made after the<br>Viking Age are ...
The Viking Age is set to about 800-1050, sometimes from 793 (the attack on the monastery on Holy Island) to 1066 (the Battle of Hastings). <br><br>It's not so...
"Viking age ended 1050, after that the Scandinavian countries became catholic. "<br><br>At least the Swedes can't be regarded as a Christian nation before the...
Viking age ended 1050, after that the Scandinavian countries became<br> catholic. "<br><br> "At least the Swedes can't be regarded as a Christian nation before...
Samuel,<br><br>First don't apologise about having problems with phrasing your words since English is your second language, we really appreciate your...
OK Roger,<br>I should think it was like this when the stone was carved. You are heading exploration expedition all in all 30 men. (22 Norwegians and 8 Gots) 10...
Samuel,<br><br>You pose a more interesting proposition about this whole affair,<br><br>Perhaps a number of the 22 Norwegians could well have been Orchadians,...
What I wrote in my previous posting, is of course pure speculation but I tried to be as reasonable as possible. I guess we are never going to know were all the...
Some corrections <br>I have been taught this weekend that the expedition sent in the winter of 1362 didn't use a cog, but King Magnus own royal Knarr. Which is...
I picked up this book finally this past week and have been reading it,<br><br>This is really a must read reference book if you are interested in the subject of...
I will try to give a reasonable explanation of why the stone were carved. It's as usual speculation and it may be wrong, but there is one positive thing with...
As I have suggested in previous posts, its entirely likely that europeans were trading with the natives in the area a full 100 years before the first recorded...
Tell me more about "Dry Dance Hill". I have never heard of it. I just tried a web search and came up with nothing.<br><br>I will be in that part of Canada this...
The name Mandan sounds to a Swede, as if an English spoken person were<br>saying Mandanes. A Dan is an old fashion Swedish name of a Danish person,<br>man got...
Remarkable yes, but often there is a shred of truth in these 'coincidences' <br><br>Another is the similarity of Arkadia, which was later shortened to Acadia ...
Is also called "Star Mound" its near a small village called "Snowflake" and is only about 10 miles north of the Canada US border, North of Devil's Lake North...
Memphremagog is a lake in Canada and there is also a small town close to it called Magog. Now according to our legends, the very first king of the Gots was...
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